Re: do you use separate .zshenv and .zshrc files?

["Benjamin R. Haskell" <zsh@benizi.com>]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, TJ Luoma wrote:

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>
> On Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
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>> My config currently spans 19 files, so my bias should be apparent. I
>> keep everything in ~/.zsh/, except for machine-specific settings, which
>> I put in ~/.zsh.local/. And ~/.zshenv is a symlink to ~/.zsh/.zshenv,
>> which sets ZDOTDIR to ~/.zsh. My ~/.zsh/.zshrc sources the other files
>> in ~/.zsh/, most of which have some guard at the top (e.g.
>> ~/.zsh/.zsh_screen returns if the `screen` command isn't installed).
>
> Ok, now I'm curious:
>
> 1. What are the 19 files? Functions in one, aliases in another, 
> variables in another? I can't even imagine that many different files, 
> but maybe I'm missing something.

Note that I didn't say my bias was "correct", only "apparent".  ;-)

It's mostly from inertia that I still keep my config in that many files, 
but here they are (I miscounted -- only 18):

.zsh_aliases - one-liners: aliases, hash -d, some tiny functions
.zsh_checkconfig - alerts me when certain commands/non-zsh configs are missing (e.g. .screenrc)
.zsh_colors - (obsolete) sets some vars to contain VT100 escape sequences
.zsh_completion - completion-system-specific configuration
.zsh_functions - functions of >1 line, simple perl scripts
.zsh_history_setup - history-related options
.zsh_im - sets up X11 Input Method (IM)
.zsh_locale - my locale settings (en_US.UTF-8 except LC_COLLATE=POSIX)
.zsh_make_backups - backs up my .historyfile and a few other files daily
.zsh_math - (rarely used) some small functions/vars relating to math
.zsh_nosefart - small functions for nosefart (an NES sound file player)
.zsh_prompt - sets up my prompt (lots of custom functions)
.zsh_screen - some functions and aliases for using screen/dtach
.zsh_ssh - set up my SSH agent
.zsh_ssh_logip - log my IP if logging in via SSH
.zsh_svn_backup - (obsolete - from when I was using SVN rather than git)
.zshenv - environment variables, paths, etc.
.zshrc - command_not_found_handler, env vars that only make sense 
interactively ($LESS, $PAGER, $EDITOR), general Zsh settings, loads the 
other files (including things in .zsh.local, if it exists)


> 2. Are you primarily using one computer or several?  If several, how 
> do you keep this in sync?

I generally have a work PC and a home PC.  I keep both of those configs 
in git, occasionally cherry-picking things from the work repo into my 
home repo.  For systems where I won't likely make many modifications, I 
generally just rsync to the remote system.  Then custom things go in 
.zsh.local (e.g. .zsh.local/.zsh_prompt always contains a custom prompt 
color).  For small synchronization tasks, I use a function that calls 
vimdiff on the local and remote files.


> FWIW my ~/.zshenv and ~/.zshenv are links to ~/Dropbox/etc/Zsh/env.sh 
> and ~/Dropbox/etc/Zsh/rc.sh but I have some shell accounts which I 
> can't sync via Dropbox so I end up syncing them manually (scp) and it 
> always seems like one file would be easier there too. OTOH I suppose 
> rsync would be easy enough.

Yeah.  At the rate I make modifications (infrequently, and usually in 
batches), I find it's easy enough to just:

rsync -av ~/.zsh remote-machine:

-- 
Best,
Ben